Early Education and Development

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STEM Labs: A promising professional learning approach to promote teacher–child interaction quality and science and engineering practices	76
Head Start Educators’ Occupational Stress: Discovering Common Stressors and Underlying Causes Through the Improvement Science-Based Intervention Data	30
Preschool Teachers’ Child-Directed Talk: Unlocking Opportunities for Language Learning and Knowledge-Building	29
School-Based Early Childhood Education and Children’s Development in Urban Nepal	27
Pathways to Early Academic Achievement: Exploring the Contributions of Early Environments, Attention Regulation, and Language Skills	24
Evaluating Qualities of Pretend Play: Classroom Observations and Teacher Perceptions	22
Home‐Rearing Environment and Early Math Achievement: Longitudinal Mediation Through Children’s Self-Regulation and Math Anxiety	21
The Effect of a Sibling Shared Reading Intervention on the Reading Development of Early School-Aged Children in Rural China	20
Cumulative Family Sociodemographic Risk and Preschoolers’ Language Skills Development: The Mediating Role of the Home Literacy Environment	19
Do Servant Leadership and Emotional Labor Matter for Kindergarten Teachers’ Organizational Commitment and Intention to Leave?	18
A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Effectiveness and Mechanisms of Change in a School-Based Intervention Combining Universal and Indicated Prevention for Preschoolers’ Behavior Problems	18
Executive Functioning and Early Math Skills in Young Children at Risk for Mathematical Difficulties: Evaluation of Interventions Efficacy and Transfer Effects	18
Socioeconomic Status and Children’s English Language and Literacy Outcomes: The Mediating Role of Home Literacy Environment	17
Media Use in Daily Routines and Young Children’s Social Skills	16
Chinese Preschool Teachers’ Use of Concept Development Strategies to Elicit Children’s Higher-Order Thinking During Whole-Group Science Teaching	16
How Early Digital Experience Shapes Young Brains During 0-12 Years: A Scoping Review	16
Understanding Young Children’s Learning and Development in the Wake of the Pandemic: Evidence from Acelero Head Start Programs	14
Catholic Schooling and Self-Discipline: Outcomes for Early Elementary Students	12
Does Participation Benefit Children’s Socio-Emotional Development? Positive Associations Between Children’s Participation and Self-Concept, Through Children’s Perceptions	12
The Impact of Block Play on Young Children’s Production of Intrinsic Frame of Reference: A Quasi-Experiment	12
Examination of Equitable Access and Experiences in Head Start by Race and Language Status	12
The Link Between Black Preschoolers’ Effortful Control and Their Positive and Conflictual Teacher Interactions: Moderating Role of Family Involvement and Emotionally Supportive Classrooms	12
Influence of Maternal Cognitions on Child Mental Health and Educational Experiences at Home During COVID-19	11
A Systematic Review of Reported Assent Methodology in Early Childhood Research	11
Does Preschool Education Moderate the Associations Between Paternal, Maternal, and Allocaregivers’ Engagement and Children’s Literacy and Social Skills in African Countries?	11

School- Versus Center-Based Pre-K: Are There Differences in Student Achievement, Executive Function, and Social–Emotional Outcomes?	10
Learning to Name Uppercase and Lowercase Letters in Preschoolers and Kindergarteners: An Investigation of the Effects of Child- and Letter-Related Factors	10
AI Literacy in Chinese Preschoolers: Evidence from Scale Validation Study	10
Preschool Children’s Evaluations of Prototypic and Accidental Moral Transgressions Differ by Economic Strata	10
Validity, Reliability, and Relevance of a Measurement Tool for Childcare Providers’ Work-Related Stress and Job Satisfaction	10
What Factors Drive School Districts to Adopt Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK): Evidence from Wisconsin	9
Short-Term Effects of an Outdoor Activities Intervention on Children’s Stress, Socio emotional, Behavioral, and Cognitive Regulation Skills	9
Mapping the Global State of AI Curricula in Early Childhood Education: A Scoping Study	9
Profiles of Professional Wellbeing and Turnover Intentions Among Australian Early Childhood Educators	9
Cross-Lagged Associations Between Caregiver-Child and Teacher-Child Relationships and Approaches to Learning in Rural Preschoolers: The Moderating Role of Boarding Status	9
Strengthening Family-School Partnerships: Perspectives on Parent-Educator Communication in Pre-K Programs	9
Highlighting ECE Teachers’ Proximal Processes as Designers: An Investigation of Teachers’ Design Thinking Engagement, TPACK Efficacy, and Design Vitality	9
Differences in Characteristics Between Head Start Participants and Non-Participants Among Head Start Eligible Families with Young Children	9
Young Children’s and Teachers’ Perceptions of Affective Teacher-Child Relationships: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between the Netherlands and China	8
Homelessness in Early Childhood and Third-Grade Academic Achievement: Do Executive Function Skills Mediate or Moderate Risk?	8
The Effects of Short-Term Bilingual Exposure on Executive Functions, Theory of Mind, and Receptive Vocabulary in Monolingual Mandarin-Speaking Preschoolers	8
Digital Transformations in Early Learning: From Touch Interactions to AI Conversations	8
How Does Comprehensive Art Education Facilitate Children’s Creativity? A Mixed-Methods Study in China	8
How the Type and Context of Children's Storybook Reading Relate to Select Empathy Skills: A Meta-Analysis	8
Fostering Beginning Early Childhood Education Teachers’ Occupational Well-Being: A Tripartite Model Integrating Preexisting Self-Control, Job Demands, and Job Resources	7
Family Experiences of Early Childhood Programs’ Reactions and Expulsion Decisions in Response to Children’s Unwanted Behavior	7
Beyond Free Play and Physical Activity: Assessing the Quality and Determinants of Outdoor Environments for Children	7
Validation of the Coping with Children’s Negative Emotions Scale Adapted to the Early Childhood Education and Care Context	7
Profiles and Predictors of Physical Abuse and Behavior Problems in Chinese Preschool-Aged Children	7
Self-Reported Depressive Symptoms Among Preschool Teachers: Associations with Children’s Social-Emotional, Cognitive, and Executive Functioning Skills	7
Beyond Book Reading: New Pathways to Vocabulary Development Through Playful Learning	7
Picturebooks Increase the Frequency and Diversity of Emotion Vocabulary in Children’s Language Environments: Modeling Potential Benefits to Emotional Literacy, with Pedagogical Resources	7
Chinese Preschoolers’ Pattern Creation: Performance and Predictors	7
Family Socioeconomic Status and Child Executive Functions: Exploring the Mediating Role of Child Routines	7
Do Early Care and Education Programs Improve When Enrolled in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems? Longitudinal Evidence from One System	7
Spanish Validation of the Two-Factor Interpersonal Reactivity Index: Evidence for the Relationship Between Empathy, Social Competence, and Emotion Regulation	6
Which Interactive Features in Children’s Digital Picture Books Promote Reading Comprehension? A Meta-Analysis	6
The Roles of Student-Teacher Relationship Quality and Classroom Self-Regulatory Supports for Children’s Self-Regulatory Skills in Kindergarten and First Grade	6
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Classroom Quality, Children’s Unoccupied-Disruptive Behavior, and Social Interaction: Associations with Language and Math Achievement in Head Start	6
Childcare Providers and COVID-19: The Role of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy in Sustaining Subjective Well-Being	6
Children’s Learning Experiences in Rural Boarding Preschools: Classroom Quality and Associations with Developmental Outcomes	6
Questions that Fuel the Mind: Exploring the Associations between Teacher-Child Higher-Level Interaction and Preschoolers’ Development of Executive Functions	6
What Factors are Associated with Young Children’s Language Learning Environment? A Systematic Review of Language Environment Analysis (LENA) Measures	6
Process Quality in Toddler Classrooms in Four European Countries	6
Spontaneous Neural Activity in the Prefrontal Cortex Accounts for Indirect Effects in the Association Between Fine Motor Skills and Mathematical Abilities in 4–5-Year-Old Children	6
Head Start in Low-Wealth, Rural Communities: Evidence from the Family Life Project	6
Asian Immigrant Parent Involvement and Their Children’s Socio-Emotional and Academic Outcomes in Early Childhood: A Comparison with U.S.-Born Asian Parents	6
Investigating the Determinants of School Readiness in Indonesian Preschool Children: Does Home Activity Play a Role?	6
Opportunities to Talk Matter in Shared Reading: The Mediating Roles of Children’s Engagement and Verbal Participation in Narrative Listening Comprehension	6
From Pre-Service Preparation to Professional Development: Early Childhood Teachers’ Learning Experiences, ECE Quality, and Child Development in China	6
How Early Educators Make Emergent Curricula Work: A Qualitative Analysis with an Eye Toward Scale	5
Validation of the Chinese Empathy Questionnaire for Pre-School Children	5
Teacher–Child Agreement in Relationship Quality: Predictors and Associations with Child School Adjustment Among Chinese Kindergarteners	5
A Focus Group Study on Participatory Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care Across Four European Countries	5

Parents’ Psychological Distress During COVID-19: Correlates and Relations with Parents’ Engagement in Early Education	5
Concurrent Predictors of Science Performance in Latine Kindergarteners	5
Self-Regulation Scaffolding Behaviors of Teachers in Chilean Preschool Classrooms	5
Assessing Educator Responsivity in Outdoor Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: Validating the Outdoor Environment Version of the Responsive Interactions for Learning Measure	5
Exploring Gender Disparity in Chinese Children’s Literature: The Impact of Authorship and Narrative Elements	5
Synergistic Relations of Teacher and Parent Burnout and Preschooler’s Social-Emotional Competence and Behavioral Self-Regulation	5
The Effect of Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy on Learning Engagement and Subsequent Reading Performance: The Difference Between L1 and L2 Reading in First-Grade Students	5
The Effects of Student–Teacher Ethnoracial Matching on Chronic Absenteeism: Exploring the Role of Relational Dynamics in Early Education	5
Instrument Development and Validation of the Home Child Care Version of the Assessment for Quality Improvement	5
Children’s Picture Books: A Systematic Analysis of Features in the Domain of Mathematics	5
Language Dominance and the School Readiness of Preschool-Age Spanish-English Dual Language Learners	5
Relative Contributions of Mothers, Fathers, and Other Caregivers’ Cognitive and Socioemotional Stimulation on Ghanaian Children’s School Readiness	5
Exploring Links Between Social Competence, Immigrant Background, and Children’s Preschool Adjustment	5
Children’s School Feelings and Adaptation During the Transition From Kindergarten to Primary School in China	5
The Mediating Role of Maternal Psychological Capital on the Relationship between Social Support and Parenting Competence: Evidence from Chinese Mothers	5
Aladdin’s Genie or Pandora’s Box for Early Childhood Education? Experts Chat on the Roles, Challenges, and Developments of ChatGPT	5
Investigating Preschool Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Number Comparison	5
Adaptive Caregiving Beliefs and Professional Competence Among Chinese Childcare Center Teachers: A Moderated Mediation Model	5
Child Care Instability and Children’s Developmental Outcomes: A Systematic Literature Review	4
Exploring Preschoolers’ Vocabulary and Knowledge Acquisition from Informational Video and Shared Reading	4
Exploring Playful Opportunities for STEM Learning in Early Elementary School	4
Maternal Psychological Control Mediates Maternal Emotional Distress and Preschoolers’ Relational Aggression: Perceived Normativeness as a Moderator	4
Head Start Teachers’ Perceptions About Problem Behaviors and Social-Emotional Competence: Is There Evidence of Systematic Differences?	4
Counterfactual Differences and Variations in the Impacts of a District-Run Universal Pre-K Program	4
Young Children’s Perceptions of Hypothetical Peers’ Social and Solitary Preferences	4
Chinese Model of Digital Leadership in Early Childhood Settings: A Grounded Theory Study	4
Does Screen Media Hurt Young Children’s Social Development? Longitudinal Associations Between Parental Engagement, Children’s Screen Time, and Their Social Competence	4
Maternal Overcontrol and Young Children’s Internalizing Problems in China: The Roles of Social Competence and Teacher-Child Conflict	4
The Emotion Matching Task (EMT): Anti-Bias Adaptations, Measurement Invariance, and Longitudinal Growth in Preschoolers	4
What Drives Early Childhood Providers to Increase Quality? Using Expectancy-Value Theory to Understand Providers’ Motivations and Challenges in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems	4
A Validation Study of the Assessing Classroom Sociocultural Equity Scale (ACSES) in Pre-Kindergarten to Third Grade Classrooms	4
The Role of State Subsidy Policies in Early Education Programs’ Decisions to Accept Subsidies: Evidence from Nationally Representative Data	4
Digital Technology in Preschool Classrooms: A Qualitative Case Study	4
Patterns of Classroom Organization in Classrooms Where Children Exhibit Higher and Lower Language Gains	4
Using Generative Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Early STEM Learning: A Case Study in a Chinese Kindergarten	4
Knowledge-Building Through Categorization: Boosting Children’s Vocabulary and Content Knowledge in a Shared Book Reading Program	4
Examining the Associations between Teacher Job Satisfaction, Workplace Climate, and Well-Being Resources within Head Start Programs	3
How Do Combinations of Transition Activities Available to Children and Families Predict Successful Kindergarten Transitions?	3
Social–Emotional Competence as a Predictor of Early Numeracy Skills	3
Nurturing Preschool Children’s Social Skills and Reducing Behavioral Difficulties Through Teacher Practices: The Answer of the Incredible Years Classroom Management Programme	3
Embedding a Parenting Skills Program in Public PreK: Outcomes of a Quasi-Experimental Mixed Methods Study	3
Family Engagement in Caregiving Activities and Child Development Outcomes in Vietnam: A Fixed-Effects Analysis	3
Walking the Tightrope: How Classroom Walkthroughs and Preschool Teachers’ Emotion Regulation Shape Professional Well-Being	3
A Validation of the Classroom Assessment Scoring System in Chinese Toddler Classrooms: Examining Its Factor Structure	3
Associations of Specific Indicators of Adult–Child Interaction Quality and Child Language Outcomes: What Teaching Practices Influence Language?	3
Inclusion of Young Multilingual Learners with or at Risk for Disabilities in Dual-Language Education: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review	3
Digital Parenting versus Digital Grandparenting: Which Contributes to Cognitive Delay in the First 1000 Days? Evidence from Rural China	3
The Educational Technology Divide in Glocalisation: A Perspective for Interpreting Early Childhood Teachers’ Practices of ICT Implementation	3
Understanding Teacher-Child Dyadic Interactions Through a Problem-Solving Task: Evidence from Chinese Preschools	3
Early Childhood Educators’ Physical Literacy Predict Their Self-Efficacy and Perceived Competence to Promote Physical Activity	3
What About the Influence of Outdoor Quality on Preschoolers’ Cognitive and Social Skills?	3
Enhancing Teachers’ Pedagogical Awareness of Teaching Early Mathematical Skills – A Mixed Methods Study of Tailored Professional Development Program	3
Mind-sets in Early Childhood: The Relations Among Growth Mindset, Engagement and Well-Being Among First Grade Students	3
Validation and Psychometric Properties of the German Empathy Questionnaire (EmQue) for Preschool Children	3
Positive Technology Use and Grit in Early Childhood: Parental Insights on Academic Achievement from Preschool to Third Grade	3
Self-Regulation and Academic Achievement from Early to Middle Childhood Among Children in Low-Income Neighborhoods	3
Has the COVID-19 Pandemic Widened the Urban-Rural Gap in Early Child Development in China? Evidence from the Rural Side	3
Executive Function and Spatial Skills in Children’s Block Play: A Cross-Cultural Comparison	3
The Mediating Role of Negative Parenting and Children’s Mastery Motivation on Socioeconomic Status and Chinese Preschoolers’ Problem Behaviors	3
Teacher-Child Interaction Domains Measured by the CLASS and Children’s Pre-Literacy Skills: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	3
Teachers’ Use of Spanish in the Classroom: Implications for Hispanic Dual Language Learners’ Classroom Engagement	2
Interventions for Students with or at Risk for Reading Difficulties in Grades K-2: A Systematic Review	2
Meeting the Relational and Developmental Needs of Young Children Exposed to Potentially Traumatic Events Through Trauma-Informed Care	2
Coaching and Coursework Focused on Teacher–Child Interactions During Language/Literacy Instruction: Effects on Teacher Outcomes and Children’s Classroom Engagement	2
The Quality of Teacher-child Interactions and Teachers’ Occupational well-being in Finnish Kindergartens: A Person-centered Approach	2
Relations Between Executive Functions, Child Characteristics, Parental Education, and Academic Skills: A Cross-Cultural Study of Young Children in Iran and the United States	2
Cross-Lagged Associations Between Teacher–Child Relationships and Children’s Social Competence in Kindergarten: Achievement Strategies as a Moderator	2
Early Education Program Racial and Ethnic Composition and Associations with Quality and Children’s Language and Social-Emotional Development	2
Impacts of Traditional, Digital, and AI-Integrated Home Literacy Environments on Children’s Literacy Skills: A Cross-Sectional Study	2
Understanding Learning Variability in Early Childhood: An Equity-Centered Assessment of Cognitive Regulation among Diverse Preschool Children	2
How Do Early Childhood Education Teachers Support Language? Frequency and Variation in Practices Across Activities	2
Does the Language-Based Professional Development Program ‘Talking with Children’ (TwC) Have Differential Effects on Children’s Language Skills?	2
Why Parenting Attitudes Matter for Low-Income Families: Evidence from a Longitudinal Transactional Study	2
Balancing Acts: The Impact of Family-Work Conflict on Autonomy Support Among Chinese Kindergarten Teachers	2
In Tune? Multimodal Mother-Child Interpersonal Coordination During Early Childhood’	2
Effects of an Outdoor Play-Based Intervention on Preschoolers’ Fundamental Movement Skill Competence: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	2
Instructional Talk in Early Science Education: How Teachers’ Support and Children’s Verbal Participation Shape Language Development and Learning About Materials	2
Testing the Mediational Role of Classroom Interactions in the Dynamic Interplay Between Teacher Emotional Exhaustion and Children’s Disruptive Behavior	2
Grandparenting Changes and Chinese Preschoolers’ Social Adjustment: The Mediating Role of Intergenerational Coparenting	2
Learning from Storybooks: Using Shared Book Reading to Target 5- to 7-Year-Olds’ Metacognitive Monitoring	2

A Nationwide Multidimensional Examination of Early Care and Education Access: Links Between Access Profiles, Equitable Enrollment, and Public Funding Policies	2
Home-Visiting in a Shared Reading Intervention: Effects on Children from Low SES and Ethnic Minority Families	2
Adaptation and Validation of the Chinese Inventory of Children’s Socioemotional Competence (CICSEC-N) Among 2-Year-Old Chinese Nursery Children	2
The Sibling Effect on Theory of Mind Among Chinese Preschoolers: Considering the Role of Parenting Style and Peer Interaction	2
“You Have to Do It Like the Duckies Hatch Their Egg”: Parent and Sibling Teaching of Conceptual and Procedural Knowledge in Early Childhood	2
Why Do Child Care Teachers Leave? Why Do They Stay? – Pre-Pandemic Evidence	2
Contribution of Peers’ Self-Regulation to the Development of Preschoolers’ Self-Regulation, Language, and Literacy Skills in Early Education Classrooms	2
Do Playful Parents Raise Playful Children? A Mixed Methods Study to Explore the Impact of Parental Playfulness on Children’s Playfulness	2
Engagement in Activity Settings of First and Second Language Learners in Preschool – The Role of Qualified Preschool Teachers and Classroom Structure	2
Is Temperament Associated with Academic School Readiness in Children Born Very Preterm?	2
Learning Two Languages: Dual Language Learning Patterns, Predictors, and Outcomes	2
The Benefits of Buddies: Strategically Pairing Preschoolers with Other-Gender Classmates Promotes Positive Peer Interactions	2
Understanding Young Designers: Development and Validation of the Early Design Thinking Scale (EDTS)	2
Can a Brief Professional Development Improve Early Childhood Educators’ Responsivity and Interaction Quality in Child Care Centers? A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial	2
“Wear a Helmet and Go Online”: Multi-Stakeholder Perspectives on Cybersafety and Digital Well-Being in Early Childhood Education in China	2
Parents’ Trust in Their Child’s Preschool: Associations with Child and Family Characteristics and Aspects of Parent-Preschool Communication	2
Children’s Narrative Retells: The Influence of Character Realism and Storybook Theme on Central and Peripheral Detail	2
An Exploration of Continuous Quality Improvement Approaches within the Texas Quality Rating and Improvement System	2
Parent-Grandparent Co-Parenting and preschoolers’ Self-Control in China : The Roles of Maternal and Grandparental Parenting Styles	2